The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-04-08
saIishnr,,s second Thenght.

Il has ALWAYS been ERgland's DOast
tina; mIsru'ed people all over the world
found .ne strong hand OF her government
stretched out between the tyTant aud
his victim. English men of letters new
,-r rise 20 such glowing dlihyrambics as
In detailing he humane Intervention OF
British statesmanshIp in the affairs or
downLroddeu pc pies. More than THIS,
when official England has held back, or
seemed deaf 10 the wrongs Of peoples,
the English masses have met in great
assembiages, and, with the ald OF me
press compelled action.
E izabeth upheld the fain;ing hopes Of
the Dutch William and Anne put az
mics at the disposal of the small German
states. Pit involved his country in the
colossal debt the nation is still gTOanIng
under, 10 preserve the continent from
the insatiste ambition of the CoTSican.
Gladstone upheld the Greeks, and III
1878, when the Christian provinces OF
the Turk were weighted with iutOieraDle
burdens, he routed the most idOlized
minister since Pitt by his flaming ha-
rangues.
1t is not necessary 20 examine the self
ishness or self-seeking motives behind
Euglaud's eveTTeady sympathy for per.
secuted peoples. 1t is one of the phe-
England is always open to the appeal of
misruled peoples. Byron, embaTking in
a mad attempt to OveItuTR the Turk N
Greece, aroused aristOcratIc England,
and both men and money weIe at his
command. Yet a greater than Byron
Shelley-pleaded, and pleaded IL vain,
for national laws and humane methods
in dealing with Ireland. Parliament
and people have iuveighed against the
tyranTicaI suppression of the Polish
people. Gladstone gave the Greeks back
the IOnian Isles. But neither Gladstone
nor the people have as yet turned the
a istocratic rulers of Great Britain to
see the wrongs put upon the Irish people.
1t is the amazing tergiversation 0: the
British nobility that makes all conjecture
as to the end of the present mOnStTOuS
attempt at national suppression Yain.-
If the Tories were amenable to any Of
the considerations that move men N
power, nothing would be easier to pre-
dict than the outcome of the present
coercion measure. But they are not
The stupid party they have long been
called, and if they were left by them
selves they would stand small chance of
doing mischief. But the Whig element
OF the Liberal party, which has been
spring Tory measures and uphoIding
Tory pTejudices. The Marquis of Hart
ington. who charges his brothers. muT
der upon the Irish people, is inspired by
a fanatic hatred against Gladstone for
the combination of that crime, and he
has enough influence with a certain
number of rank wOrshlping members to
hold them in opposition to all the con
vic.iOns OF their political lives. The
group Uf Radicals uehInd Cham berlain
are more uncertain quantity. For the
moment, they seem to assent to Cham
UpTlaIn's attitude, but when English
opinion has expressed itself agsiusy the
renewal of the political warfare of a
century, these men will fly from the
Birmingham boss The indignant pro
test of Gladstone and the almost furious
denunciation of the provincial press,
have already brought second thought
10 the Tory JuguTtha. Salisbury has
concluded to withdraw the clause fore
ing Irish trials on English soil. When
the projected mass meetings have been
heard from, when the counties of Eng
land, Scotland and Wales have expressed
themselves on the proposed pTomulg gatIOl,
OF Russian laws in the empire, perhaps
even the HarUiDgtOnian marplois may
recognize that the last verdict at the
polls was snap" judgment, snd that
the heart of England is still true to
/ GlEdstOue-still true 10 the old impulse
to redeem the downtrodden N. Y.
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